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ocelli rather distant, arranged in an equilateral triangle ; 

 pubescence of irons and face rather long. Thorax subquadrate, 

 with short pubescence ; scutellum semicircular, unarmed, its hind 

 border sharp and produced as in Eumerus. Abdomen as broad as 

 the thorax, with parallel sides ; second and third segments almost 

 of equal size, fourth more than twice as long as the third. Legs 

 short and not robust ; hind femora quite simple, neither thickened, 

 incurved, dentate, nor spinose ; tarsi very thin, not expanded nor 

 flattened. Wings with venation very like that of Eumerus ; no 

 iT.>ss-vein between the ends of the auxiliary and first longitudinal 

 veins ; third vein without a stump ; small cross-vein situate beyond 

 the middle of the discal cell ; apical cross- vein bent in the middle 

 as in Eumerus, and at this point with a stump directed outwards; 

 lower corners of the subapical and of the discal cells rounded off 

 and each bearing a stump ; vena spuria distinct ; postical cross- 

 vein with its upper end exactlv on a level with the middle of the 

 subapical cell. 



Type : the following new species : 



127. Amphoterus cribratus, sp. n. 



c? . Length of the body 10 mm., of the antennae 2~5 mm. 



A stout ny of a dark colour, with very strongly punctate body, 

 simple legs, and long pendulous antennae. 



Head black; the dark hairs on the frons erect; face grey-dusted 

 and yellowish-haired ; antenna 1 and arista entirely black; proboscis 



Fig. 19. Amphotenis~cribratv.$. sp. u $. X 1. 



black. Thorax and scutellum black, very strongly punctate, with 

 short yellowish pubescence, which is a little longer on the anterior 

 half of the pleura?. Abdomen black, punctate like the thorax, with 

 some pale erect hairs at the base and on the sides ; its pubescence 

 is short, yellowish, and denser towards the sides, while at the end of 

 the fourth secernent it is abundant and almost of a golden colour ; 



